Bug 189831 - Provide more than 4 keyboard layouts with kxkb
Summary: Provide more than 4 keyboard layouts with kxkb
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 174753
Alias: None
Product: kxkb
Classification: Miscellaneous
Component: general (show other bugs)
Version: unspecified
Platform: Debian testing Linux
: NOR wishlist
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Andriy Rysin
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Reported: 2009-04-16 21:07 UTC by Alex Dănilă
Modified: 2009-05-22 16:10 UTC (History)
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Description Alex Dănilă 2009-04-16 21:07:40 UTC 
Version:            (using KDE 4.2.2)
OS:                Linux
Installed from:    Debian testing/unstable Packages

kxkb of KDE4 can only provide four keyboard layouts. This is an xorg bug.
It would be nice if kxkb could work around this and provide more layouts, even if it meant keyboard reconfiguration and it is "expensive".

I have never noticed the keyboard switching delay with KDE 3 on my old slow computer, so this isn't actually such a problem.
Comment 1 Andriy Rysin 2009-04-17 00:14:31 UTC 
Expensiveness of switching layouts is not just about performance, it was also introducing many other problems, more than half a dozen of (quite ugly) kxkb bugs were closed just because we're switching groups now as x.org was designed.

Workaround is possible but will take quite a bit of time to implement and will complicate maintainance.

There was actually some work on improving xkb protocol but I have't followed it close enough latetly.
Comment 2 Alex Dănilă 2009-05-22 16:10:57 UTC 
Found and earlier request.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 174753 ***